The We the People will not be Chipped - No Verichip Inside Movement, is based on the irrefutable fact, that mankind has inalienable human rights that are absolute and can not be debased, nor perverted. Human life can not be degraded to a 16 digit RFID chip number embedded under you skin under any circumstance. By uniting on this common ground, we can send a strong message to the IBM funded Verichip that

We The People Will Not Be Chipped!

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Predictive Programming and the Human Microchipping Agenda from John Smith on Vimeo.

Predictive Programming and the Human Microchipping Agenda confirms the reality of the microchip agenda, and shows that the weapon of propaganda has been used against the public for decades in order to familiarize us with the idea of being chipped. This process is called predictive programming and its purpose is literally to program the mind of the victim so as to accept without question whatever is required by the programmer - in this case, the idea of being microchipped at some point in the future. The victim is generally unaware of being programmed, believing that it's all just harmless entertainment. For this reason it can be a powerful and effective weapon against us.



By explaining this process and giving example after example, Predictive Programming and the Human Microchipping Agenda is an attempt to alert the viewer to some of the ways in which we have been manipulated throughout our lives for the specific purpose of slowly but surely shepherding us all into a Hellish world of microchip implants and totalitarian control. We hope that by exposing the programming we can break the program and derail this diabolical agenda. To be successful we need your help.



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ASIO abuses hidden and ignored

Surveillance of and interference with Australian analysts, writers and other professionals standard practice

Former Wall Street Analyst (Australian working for SBC Warburg — now part of UBS) Wilson targeted after publishing report touching on US State Department investigation into allegations US copper/gold mining company Freeport McMoran was involved in the killing of indigenous protestors in West Papua, Indonesia.

ASIO interference with Australian “soft” targets includes:

Step Change Marketing, the consultancy behind theWankers Don’t Work Here recruitment video, is claiming a world first with the creation of a website where marketing problems are tackled by a ‘virtual marketing strategist’.

Promoted as a tool to help businesses identify growth opportunities in nine questions and under 15 minutes, the technology has been billed as where “articial intelligence meets marketing” with “a choose your own adventure” approach to strategy.

According to ComScore survey.

Digital market intelligence firm ComScore has revealed market research that shows Apple iPads and iPhones as the dominant mobile web devices in Australia  when it comes to internet traffic.

ComScore's Device Essentials service is based on the company’s Unified Digital Measurement (UDM) data, which the company claims to use “census-level” information from tagged web page content. The new service can report traffic by device type, including computers, mobile phones, tablets, music players, e-readers, gaming devices and other web-enabled products.

Apple's iPhone was shown to consume half (50 percent) of Australia's mobile internet traffic, with Android at 10.5 percent, according to ComScore.

The report showed that aside from Singaporeans, Australians are the most aggressive consumers of mobile data on an iPhone but only moderate users of Android devices.

ComScore’s data shows the Apple iPad as the dominant tablet force globally, forming over 89 percent of worldwide tablet traffic. In Australia that figure is substantially higher - with Apple's iPad showing over a quarter (25.9 percent) of the total device market whilst Android-based tablets came in at only half of one percent.

For perspective, ComScore points out non-computer device traffic only accounts for around one per cent of total internet traffic consumption.

For example, 94.6 percent of Australian users still access newspaper sites on a standard computer, 3.4 percent on their mobile and 1.9 percent on tablets.

Other interesting data from the survey reveals iOS actually beats Android in the US for the amount content accessed on mobile devices, specifically via Wi-Fi connections, with Android users relying much more on mobile networks.

This article originally appeared at itpro.co.uk

Brain scans that detect early warning signs of Alzheimer's may be available in theUnited States as soon as this year, researchers reported this week, though it may be too early for the scans to be of much help for those with the disease.

"You'll get a more accurate and earlier diagnosis, which can be important to people who want to know what's going on when their memory is starting to decline," said Dr. Christopher Rowe, lead author of one study on the scans. "Unfortunately, until there's an effective therapy, there's nothing that can be done to stop the progression of the disease. The real value is going to come when we have an effective therapy."

According to the Alzheimer's Association, the disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and the number of deaths has risen in recent years.

AMRITSAR: Police have again issued orders to owners of liquor vends to install CCTV cameras to record the activities of people who often consume liquor outside the vends, and indulge in brawls, creating lawlessness. Police had earlier also given directions to liquor vends, but none of them had installed CCTVs. This time they have been given 45 day-deadline to install the same.

Police commissioner P P S Sidhu, on Friday, directed owner of liquor vends to install CCTV at sale points with sufficient number of cameras and recording system to cover up to 50 meters area in front of the shop. "The CCTV should monitor anyone consuming liquor or facilitating consumption of liquor or any unauthorized vendor stationed in the coverage area," said Sidhu.

He added that police had received complaints that people purchasing liquor from vends often start consuming it in front of the liquor shop and at other public places. Vendors selling eatables and juices, at time, also station themselves un-authorizedly outside such sale points, further facilitating public consumption, said Sidhu.

A bill that would let the state take DNA samples from anyone convicted of any crime — including misdemeanors — has stalled in Albany, where the State Senate and the Assembly have butted heads over what the bill should include.

In addition to the DNA provision, the Assembly’s version of the bill includes measures that some lawmakers and advocates say would provide greater protection against wrongful convictions. The Senate, meanwhile, has passed a bill that contains only the DNA provision — the so-called “All Crimes” DNA bill.

High tech finger scanners that were ballyhooed a couple of years ago as the sure fire way to ID Seminole County students using lunchroom charge accounts are being dumped in favor of a simpler and less costly procedure.

Just looking the kid in the face.

Linda Daniels, food service supervisor for the school district, says the district is ending its four-year experiment with biometrics. With a $23,000 renewal on an agreement with Educational Biometric Technologies for maintenance and support coming up, Daniels searched for a cheaper alternative and found one at her fingertips.

PATNA: Now, Patnaites will have their own unique identity number as the much-hyped biometric unique identity (UID) card, an initiative of theUnique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), was launched here on Friday at Patna GPO byAcharya Kishore Kunal.

The UID scheme aims at issuing a random 10-digit alphanumeric identity number to every Indian citizen. This identification number will be stored in a centralized database and linked to the basic demographic and biometric details of the holder.

More than one million contactless payment transactions have now been made in the UK this year, according to new research.

A report from Barclays and Barclaycard has found that since January there has been a 217 per cent rise in monthly transactions, allowing shoppers to pay for items under £15 with just the swipe of a card.

London - MBNA and Virgin Money credit card customers will now be able to pay for goods without inputting their pin number.

The providers are the latest to roll out controversial “contactless” cards, which allow users to “tap and go” when paying for goods that cost less than £15. Customers will simply tap their card against a pad by the till, and the money will be deducted.

All new and replacement MBNA and Virgin cards will have the technology.

There are concerns that it is much easier for fraudsters to steal contactless cards and make small purchases.

But providers say that customers will “occasionally” be asked for their pin number when making purchases and victims of fraud will be “fully protected”.

“Contactless payment is secure, convenient and enables customers to cut down time queuing,” says Grant Bather of Virgin Money.

There are already 10 million contactless credit and debit cards in Britain. Payments can be made at Subway, Pret a Manger and Caffe Nero, while other retailers such as Boots, Spar and the National Trust are testing the system.

If customers are paying for goods at a retailer without the technology, they can use chip and pin as normal.

When they first receive the card, they need to make an initial chip and pin transaction to activate the new technology. - Daily Mail

All schoolchildren will soon have unique identification numbers (UID), which will help in tracking their movement in educational institutions and academic records.

This follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) here on Wednesday.

The system will help in tracking students' mobility by creating an electronic registry, right from the primary level through secondary and higher education, as also between the institutions. Imprinting of the UID number on the performance records of students, including mark-sheets, merit certificates and migration certificates, will be helpful to prospective employers and educational institutions.

All schoolchildren will soon have unique identification numbers (UID), which will help in tracking their movement in educational institutions and academic records.

This follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) here on Wednesday.

The system will help in tracking students' mobility by creating an electronic registry, right from the primary level through secondary and higher education, as also between the institutions. Imprinting of the UID number on the performance records of students, including mark-sheets, merit certificates and migration certificates, will be helpful to prospective employers and educational institutions.

The Plymouth Police Department is getting an updated fingerprinting system after receiving a $10,000 state grant.

The Live Scan inkless fingerprint system will allow officers to more quickly process suspects using biometric technology, said Deputy Chief Christopher Ringel. The grant covers the full cost of the upgrade, which he said the department would otherwise have been unable to afford.

The system will later be used as part of the statewide Fast ID system. Fast ID sends the fingerprint to a database at the Wisconsin Department of Justice, and if a match is found it instantly returns a result.

Speed Identity, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced the release of the third generation of its biometric data capture system, the Speed Capture Station G3.

The Speed Capture Station is a mobile solution that works with e-Passports, visas, driver’s licenses and other biometric government ID cards to capture both the biometric and biographic information of a user.

The biometric information the system is capable of capturing include photo, fingerprints and digital signature and can integrate with the administration systems used by government and companies involved in issuance of such national IDs

http://www.thirdfactor.com/2010/11/04/speed-identity-creates-biographic-and-biometric-capture-solution

European judges have rejected an attempt by British security officials to gain access to a huge new store of visa application data being set up to combat illegal immigration, organised crime and terrorism.

The government went to court to force the EU to allow agencies such as MI5, SOCA and the UK Border Agency to use the Visa Information System (VIS), which will store details of every foreigner who applies to enter the bloc, including their fingerprints and photograph. Intelligence on those who have previously been refused a visa by another country is seen as particularly valuable.

A biometric driver licence system has been unveiled in Toowoomba as the Queensland Government begins replacing old licences to combat identity fraud.

The cards, which are embedded with a computer chip, store product and personal information.

A telecommunications interception organisation has been created within the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to provide wiretapping advice to law enforcement agencies.

The National Interception Technical Assistance Centre (NITAC) was created to help ASIO deal with the technological and legal problems of wiretapping online communications. It will operate as a two-year trial.

The agency said in a statement that the pilot will identify future requirements for all telecommunications interceptions.

"During this [trial] period, NITAC will provide technical advice and assistance to agencies dependent on their requirements and capabilities," an ASIO spokesperson said.

"Agencies will continue to be responsible for their own interception requirements."

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. reported today that they have advanced the capabilities of their uppermost GeckoSavant™, the GeckoSuper™. GeckoSystems is a dynamic leader in the emerging mobile robotics industry revolutionizing their development and usage with “Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service™.”

“Real world testing and development enables automotive manufacturers such as Ford, GM, Chrysler, Honda, BMW, and others to improve the reliability and performance of their mainstream product lines. Mobile robot development, especially for personal companion (social) robots, is no different,” remarked Martin Spencer, President/CEO, GeckoSystems.

NEW YORK, NY, October 29, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- It's 2010, the decade of the iPhone, Android and Google unmanned cars. Are modern-day computers advanced enough to predict NFL games with greater certainty than a human?

We'll use two test subjects, one called "Computer" and the other called "Human". Computer will be GameLine360.com, one of the most advanced online computer models available forNFL picks and NFL rankings. Human will be a consensus of the mainstream opinion-based power rankings.

Maybe humans will eventually meet their match in manipulation one day. The New Scientist recently reported a winner for the Loebner Prize, an annual contest that puts artificial intelligence machines through one version of the Turing Test.

Created by Alan Turing, the test is designed to tell whether or not a program is actually thinking. The test itself has a long chain ofproponents and opponents and variations, making it simplistic (to this author) to say the program "passed" the test. The Loebner Prize consists of a text conversation with the program and a human participant simultaneously for a 25 minute span. In the case of "Suzette," the judge decided incorrectly which was human and which was machine.

While I admit to the possibility that conversation with various individuals can have different outcomes and flow, my own experience with "Suzette" left me feeling a bit unimpressed--observe below:

With the capability to learn and parse more and more data I can see this conversation going a bit differently in the future--maybe so much differently that I won’t be able to tell the difference between Suzette’s and a human’s response.

I think the most important question at this point would be, is that a good thing or not?

I could probably go either way in answer to that question. On the one hand, I’m a huge fan of emerging technology. I’d love to see the positive changes AI could bring to science, medicine, and computing. I don’t necessarily think Eric Schmidt was wrong when he said “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.” and that’s just a fraction of the capability of AI.

As a guy who’s seen too many apocalyptic sci-fi flicks, though, I have to wonder. Terminator, the Matrix, it can all happen too right? What safeguards can you build into an intelligence that is capable of of increasing its capability exponentially? Let me know what you think in the comments.

When Sergey Brin and Larry Page were first looking for a CEO to run Google, they went to Apple’s headquarters to meet with Steve Jobs. The Google co-founders left that meeting wanting the CEO of Apple to become CEO of Google.

According to interviews in Bloomberg’s documentary series, Game Changers, that’s who the two boywonders wanted as their boss. At the time, Sergey and Larry had interviewed some 12-13 candidates to become CEO of Google but didn’t like any of ‘em. Instead they wanted Jobs, their quote-unquote hero, to be the CEO. Unfortunately Jobs was busy running some other company that was about to embark on a renaissance for the ages.

The Google dudes ended up finding and picking Eric Schmidt who interestingly doesn’t really resemble Jobs at all. And the rest, as they say, is history. Both companies went on to become wildly successful, Apple made the iPhone, Google made Android and now they all hate each other. What a fairy tale. [Bloomberg's Game Changers via Pocket-Lint]

A little over five years ago, Apple and Motorola were still buddies. Although Apple had famously announced its intention to drop the PowerPC processorsmanufactured by Motorola (and IBM) in favor of Intel's x86 architecture, the companies were cooperating on the launch of a new Motorola phone, the ROKR (the first handset with any iTunes integration). My, how times have changed. Apple and Motorola are battling for mobile phone market share, and the war is moving further away from store shelves and into the courtrooms with a new patent infringement lawsuit.

Patently Apple was first to report that, late Friday, Apple filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Motorola in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, both mentioning the Droid by name. One lawsuit accuses Motorola of infringing on Apple's multitouch patents. The other targets Motorola's alleged infringement of patents covering smartphone user interface elements.

The staff at Eidos Montreal have a tough task resurrecting the hugely acclaimed Deus Ex series - and you don't have to point towards its army of 'best PC game ever' awards to have them realise.

In our chat David Anfossi (producer), Jonathan Jacques-Belletete (art director) and Andre Vu (marketing game manager) below, the trio talk of the "mandate" they have to retain the series' core values - and from what we've seen they've done a fantastic job.

Human Revolution looks and sounds like the ten-year-old original - but the team has updated the shooter's gameplay to live up to today's expectations.

The whole discussion about what we’ll find immoral in the future got me thinking about that little group often described as our collective “future”: children. We often hear about children as our future when someone says, “Think of the children!” or “We shouldn’t leave this problem for our children to solve!”

Children of Men, Ender’s Game, and A Wrinkle In Time, to name a few sci-fi classics, all place the symbolic future in the hands of either children or a specific child. If children are our “future,” then who gets to have and raise children in the future will probably be pretty important.

Why then are we so cavalier about who we let have and raise them? As technology enables more people to reproduce, environmental pressures make each new life a bigger burden, and our understanding of child psychology improves, it’ll become more and more evident that just because a person can have kids doesn’t mean they should have kids. My guess is that, decades down the road, future generations will require a license to reproduce and start a family. That sounds like a pretty good idea to me.

The thing is, we already have sort of a “family license” system. It’s called adoption. If you are adopting, or trying to use an assisted reproductive technique (ART), then you have to meet some requirements. Adoptive parents must meet not just minimal standards like “no history of violence” but also quite high standards of stability, concern for the child’s welfare, wealth, and other characteristics reviewed through applications and interviews. Those who would use ARTs are often given more than an eyebrow raise by their physicians if they’re over a certain age or have a given lifestyle choice. Regardless of what criteria must be met, the point is they are always stricter than the criteria a couple must meet to be able to reproduce in the, uh, standard fashion, because there are no criteria (besides the reproductive biology) for being able to have kids unassisted.

So, what gives? If you can have children naturally, you’re free to have as many as you want and basically do what you want with them. The only exceptions are parents so horrible that the state steps in and takes them away. If you can’t or don’t want to have children naturally, then not only do you have to go through the difficult and complex processes of adoption and/or ARTs, you have to be approved to do so. It’s double-damage on the equality front. Our society, it would seem, unconsciously believes “If you’re naturally able to have kids, then it’s OK for you to have kids. But if you aren’t able to naturally have kids, there might be something else wrong with you, and you should be investigated.” That kind of mindset is wrong – your ability to have kids is not an indicator your ability to take care of them.

Read the rest here.

Hugely controversial ‘Big Brother’ plans to store details of every internet click, email and telephone call that we make are being revived by the Coalition, it emerged last night.

Captain Cyborg sidekick implants virus-infected chip

First Mate Malware and the infected pacemakers of doom

By John Leyden • Wednesday 26 May 2010 11:20

A second transhumanist RFID-chipping nut has emerged from the academic community at the University of Reading. Professor Kevin Warwick became famous years ago after claiming he was on the way towards becoming a cyborg after he implanted a simple RFID chip in his arm, which allowed sensors to register his presence and perform …

Captain Cyborg creates human bat with Reg baseball cap

Ahem...

By Lester Haines • Friday 16 May 2008 08:50

It's come to our attention that the media's favourite cybernetically-enhanced human - Kev "Captain Cyborg" Warwick of Reading Uni - earlier this week demonstrated an echolocation hat for blind people on the Beeb's The One Show. Nothing remarkable about that, you might think, but check out just whose hat had the honour of bearing …

Captain Cyborg to chew the fat with Ultra Hal

Reading uni hosts Turing Test contenders

By Lester Haines • Monday 6 Oct 2008 13:56

Reading Uni's cybernetic media strumpet Kev "Captain Cyborg" Warwick is poised to put six computer programmes to ultimate test - that devised by Alan Turing in which the machine must engage in convincingly human banter, thereby heralding "the most significant breakthrough in artificial intelligence since the IBM supercomputer …

Captain Cyborg plans to milk you, human scum

'You'll be a subspecies, like cows are now'

By Chris Williams • Tuesday 18 Mar 2008 09:51

Reg chiefs have been holding daily crisis meetings for several months over what has become of Professor Kevin "Captain Cyborg" Warwick. "He's been quiet... too quiet," one old-timer told this reporter only last week. Imagine the cheer yesterday then, when Reg reader Chris reported a sighting of the good Cap'n in Scientific …

Captain Cyborg invades Second Life

Appearing this afternoon in Sadville

By Lester Haines • Monday 23 Apr 2007 14:00

Kevin Warwick - aka Captain Cyborg - will this afternoon be entertaining the crowds on Second Life's Uvvy Island with a chat on the benefits of linking your brain to "that of an intelligent machine network" entitled "Upgrading Humans: Why not?" The appearance has been organised by the "Second Life Chapter of the World …

SO. ST. PAUL, Minn., Sep 28, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Digital Angel Corporation (DIGA 0.32, -0.14, -30.43%), an advanced technology company in the field of animal identification and emergency identification solutions, announced today that its Board of Directors unanimously rejected PositiveID Corporation's inadequate unsolicited non-binding proposal for acquisition. PositiveID Corporation, formerly known as VeriChip Corporation, (PSID 0.62, 0.00, -0.23%), was previously a subsidiary of Digital Angel, which Digital Angel divested in 2008.

Digital Angel's Board of Directors found the proposed offer highly opportunistic and designed to take advantage of the low stock valuation arising from uncertainty surrounding its NASDAQ-listing. The Board's determination that the proposed offer is inadequate was based on several grounds, including: 1) the proposed value of $16.9 million, approximately $.60 per share, does not accurately reflect the true value of a company with an annual revenue stream of $35 to $40 million; 2) it does not take into consideration recent developments in several key growth markets that benefit Destron Fearing, Digital Angel's animal ID business; 3) it does not take into account alternative exchanges, that if need be, will allow for the continued trading of Digital Angel stock; 4) it does not account for the intrinsic benefits of ongoing restructuring tactics that have begun to show results; 5) offers a volatile, undesirable security rather than cash; and 6) the proposed transaction fails to reflect that DIGA shareholders would be shouldering significant additional costs with no corresponding benefit.

Furthermore, the Board believes the proposed offer is less attractive than other informal indications of interest the Board of Directors has received. The Board is in the process of engaging a financial advisor to independently value the company and to advise it on all available strategic alternatives including maintaining its independence.

The pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. and implant maker Digital Angel have been sued over a cancerous tumor in a cat that allegedly formed because of the companies' pet ID microchip, HomeAgain.

The alleged victim of the microchip product was a cat named Bulkin that survived the cancer after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, according to the complaint filed by the cat's owner, Andrea Rutherford, in Cambridge, Mass., District Court.

MUMBAI — India's prime minister was to hand out the first unique identification numbers to villagers on Wednesday, launching a huge scheme aimed at cutting fraud and improving access to state benefits.

Manmohan Singh, accompanied by the ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, was to issue the 12-digit numbers to people in western Maharahstra state, kickstarting the roll-out of the system nationwide.

The government plans to give every Indian a number in the coming years after they submit their personal details, including fingerprints, an iris scan and photograph, to a vast Internet database.

To gain access to the Port of Philadelphia’s Packard Terminal some employees must now undergo an iris scan to authenticate their identity.

The port plans to expand the pilot project deployed by ePortation to other terminals if the technology is adopted as a federally accepted reader for the required Transportation Worker Identification Credential.

To gain access to the Port of Philadelphia’s Packard Terminal some employees must now undergo an iris scan to authenticate their identity.

The port plans to expand the pilot project deployed by ePortation to other terminals if the technology is adopted as a federally accepted reader for the required Transportation Worker Identification Credential.

The main topic of discussion in this year's conference will be 'Smarter Planet', which will be discussed by Dr Colin Harrison, Master Inventor and Director for Strategic Innovation, IBM, who will address the issue of 'Delivering on the vision of a Smarter Planet'. The topic will be broken down to discuss 'Smarter Cities', by a panel of industry experts from government, telecoms, education and transport.

The world's fourth largest technology company IBM will establish a research and development laboratory in Melbourne that will employ 150 people.

Researchers at the laboratory at the University of Melbourne will tackle issues such as managing natural disasters, using natural resources efficiently, fighting diseases, boosting agricultural yields and harnessing the power of biotechnology, a joint federal and Victorian government statement said today.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the Premier of Victoria John Brumby announced the laboratory today.

The University of Melbourne's Deputy Vice Chancellor of research, Professor Peter Rathjen, said the facility would bring together leading research and development initiatives with world-class ICT infrastructure.

"The establishment of the global R&D lab will bring together some of the best minds in the country and arguably the world," Professor Rathjen said.

The new IBM facility is expected to start operating in the first quarter of 2011 and grow to about 150 researchers within the next five years.

Commonwealth Bank debit and credit card holders will be able to tap and pay for goods under $100 at Bunnings and Dymocks.

The two retailers have joined select IGA supermarkets, Boost Juice, and Red Rooster among companies to have contactless payments available for consumers.

Contactless payments allow customers to buy items of $100 or less by tapping their card against a reader instead of entering a personal identification number or the need to sign as payment.

Federal immigration authorities have started sharing biometric information with authorities in two additional Georgia counties to help identify criminal immigrants.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Homeland Security Department, began sharing the information with Hall and Whitfield counties Wednesday.

ICE says it is part of an initiative, called Secure Communities, which is already in effect in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett and Muscogee counties.

The program allows arrestee fingerprint information to be checked against FBI criminal history records and biometrics-based immigration records kept by the Department of Homeland Security.

Previously fingerprints were just checked against the Department of Justice biometric system kept by the FBI.

Unisys Corp. has announced results from its poll that points to two-thirds of consumers supporting the use of fingerprints in place of or in addition to signatures, PIN numbers or photo IDs for identity verification with credit card purchases.

Specifically, in the responses from over 300 consumers, 63% chose fingerprints as the best way to prove their ownership of a credit card as compared with 20% choosing photo verification, 13% choosing PIN numbers and six percent choosing signatures.

Unisys is hopeful these poll results in addition to other polls that showed overwhelming support for biometrics in airport security point to a general increase in comfort and support for incorporating biometric technology into everyday life

http://www.thirdfactor.com/2010/10/14/poll-suggests-consumers-prefer-biometric-credit-card-verification

Researchers at the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors are developing ways to simulate handwritten captchas.

University at Buffalo computer scientist Venu Govindaraju believes that this annoying 21st-century problem has a decidedly old-fashioned solution: handwriting.

"Our perspective is that humans are good at reading handwriting, machines are not. It comes naturally to humans. But computer scientists typically consider handwriting a hopeless case, until someone comes along and shows them that it isn't," Govindraju said.

Citibank Australia CEO Roy Gori said on Thursday that the company is planning to roll out voice biometrics for identification to select early adopter customers in three months.

"Actually I think the next step in the evolution of security is voice biometrics," he said. "We are already sort of playing with this."

A person's voiceprint is more accurate than their fingerprint, iris or any other means of identification, according to the CEO.

It would save a lot of time and money, Gori said, because it would cut out the traditional asking of questions for identification.

Playing video games for hours on end may not be that bad after all. It could perhaps prepare your child to become a skilled surgeon one day.

Playing video games gives one an advantage not only in the games themselves but also in performing other tasks requiring visuomotor skills — connections between visual and motor processes in the brain.

Motor processes are linked with acquiring skills or skilled movements as a result of practice.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has recently created a new grant program called Prophecy that is geared towards investigations into how viruses might evolve in order to improve efforts by biopharmaceuticals to head off health threats.

In addition to public health threats, projects developed through Prophecy could undoubtedly help protect against biological threats from state-sponsored and terrorist sources, according to FastCompany.com.

The Government will investigate the use of a variety of "pre-commitment" technologies, including the possible use of a biometric fingerprint, to help track and curb the losses of problem gamblers, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said.

Government will review the findings of a June Productivity Commission report that recommended a progressive move over the next six years to pre-commitment systems that let poker machine players set binding limits on their losses.

Such technology can use smartcards or USB hardware that lets the player limit how much money they are prepared to lose in a session.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) and near field communication (NFC) chips will become "the new cookie" for mobile in the physical world. That's certainly an unexpected perspective, even hearing it from the mouth of Dean Donaldson, MediaMind global director of media innovation.
Similar to the way technology companies developed a tracking system online through ad tags and browser cookies, transmitting information from one Web page to another. It will let advertisers personalize and target ads to consumers based on preferences. When I heard those words it felt as if a lightning bolt struck me in the chest because I have been reporting on and following the progression of RFID and NFC technology since 2000.

Technology for far too long has been used as a tool to sneak through the back door. Donaldson equates it to riffling through trashcans to figure out what he's buying and then walking around to knock on my front door to say, "Hey, do you want to buy that?"

Google's Android has overtaken Apple's iOS in the global smartphone operating system market, the Financial Times reported Friday.

According to market researcher Gartner, Android's market share climbed to 17.2 percent in the second quarter to rank third after Nokia's Symbian (41.2 percent) and Research In Motion's BlackBerry (18.2 percent).

iOS, used in the iPhone and other Apple mobile devices, slipped to fourth place with 14.2 percent.

Android is especially popular in the U.S. where it has also pushed aside Nokia and RIM to dominate the market, the business daily reported.

A new "tea bag" uses nano-fibers to suck contaminants and bacteria out of water, providing a desperately-needed, cheap solution for the billions of people without clean drinking water.

Researchers at South Africa's Stellenbosch University made the device from the same material used for the bags of the country's popular rooibos tea. Inside the sachets are two tiny destroyers of all things unsafe: ultra-thin nanoscale fibers, which filter harmful contaminants, and bacteria-killing grains of carbon.

A PRIVACY group has filed a lawsuit to stop controversial airport body scanning following claims tens of thousands of images have been stored or recorded.

The move by the US’s Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) comes amid revelations that some police agencies are storing the images.

The full-body scanners, which are planned to be rolled out around the nation’s airports next year, allow screeners to detect non-metallic devices, objects and weapons concealed on a person's body.

It also reveals body outlines, organs and genitals.

Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has begun fingerprint checks with Australia as part of a biometric programme to strengthen border security and prevent identity fraud.

The programme will expand to include checks with the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States under the umbrella of the Five Country Conference (FCC), which has developed a system for securely - and with substantial privacy safeguards - matching fingerprint biometrics of persons of interest. Fingerprints of FCC citizens will not be shared.

The registration number plate of your car will soon have RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology, which will make it easier for the RTO and traffic police to get details about you and your car even from 300 ft away.

Transport ministerRadhakrishna Vikhe-Patil told TOI that tenders are being floated to procure the technology for embedding chips on number plates across Mumbai. The micro-chip will store data of the car owner, including registration details, chassis number and RTO details. It can be scanned using chip-readers from a distance of upto 300 ft.

New research from Barclays and Barclaycard shows that Britons are fed up with waiting in line, with two-fifths of customers refusing to queue for longer than two minutes and two-thirds regularly abandoning purchases.

According to the poll of 2,000 shoppers, 51% of customers refuse to even enter a store if there’s a long line.

To combat this issue,12% of retailers, including supermarket chain Co-operative, have begun to deploy contactless payment systems, which reduce transaction times by over a third, according to Barclays.

Brian Cunnington, head of debit cards for UK Retail Banking at Barclays, says, “The research shows that, particularly for small ticket items, consumers are no longer prepared to wait in line. They know they can go to another shop and purchase what they need more quickly. That is why many of our customers are starting to use contactless payment for goods under £15. It vastly speeds up purchases, while removing the need to fumble for the right amount of cash.”

The study also shows that the lower the value of the item, the more likely a shopper is to abandon a purchase if the queue is too long. The number of people willing to wait no more than a minute triples for lesser amounts, while the number willing to wait around 10 minutes falls dramatically for lower value purchases, according to Barclays.

Retailers currently offering contactless payment from Barclays include Co-operative supermarket, Little Chef, EAT., Subway and Pret a Manger

Visa is teaming with Turkey’s Akbank and vendor DeviceFidelity to launch a new microSD-based contactless mobile payment system.

Akbank customers will be able to insert DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay microSD into their handsets’ memory card slots, turning them into contactless payments devices that can be used with Visa payWave terminals.

The project will initially involve Blackberry handsets, but will expand over time to include an array of devices from manufacturers including HTC, Samsung, LG, Nokia and Motorola, according to Visa.

Mary Carol Harris, head of Visa Europe’s mobile division, comments, “One of the key challenges to the success of mobile payments is the supply and availability of NFC handsets. Until a majority of mobile handsets offered in the market are supplied with integrated NFC, Visa is proactively working with innovators like DeviceFidelity and pioneers such as Akbank to harness the potential of new technologies.”

Meanwhile, Visa’s main rival MasterCard is working on a similar project with another Turkish bank, Garanti, and vendor Gemalto to deliver contactless payment to customers via NFC-enabled SIM cards

http://www.nfcnews.com/2010/08/05/visa-akbank-to-deliver-contactless-m-payment-to-turkey

PerSay, a developer of voice-based identification authentication solutions, has announced the availability of new functionality available for use on Apple devices, such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The new technology, called VocalPassword, is designed to replace virtual keyboard use for filling in user names and passwords with voice-based authentication of the user.

VocalPassword is available for integration into any application offered on the Apple devices wherein any sort of personal authentication is required.

PerSay sees the technology being used in enterprise and personal applications like mobile banking, social network, payment services and membership-based clubs where login would be simplified, but security is not lost

http://www.thirdfactor.com/2010/08/04/persay-announces-biometric-apple-device-apps

I keep my eye on Patently Apple for a glimpse at the future of Apple products. They serve a niche in our community, and I applaud them for that. Today, they made note a patent that Apple has purchased from three engineers from Oregon. From the description on PA, this patent covers a certain aspect of using sensors in flat panel displays. I am not a biometric or patent expert, so I would suggest that you take a look at the description yourself if you’d like the technical details. As for the patent itself, you can take a look at the image below.

I am less interested in the technical aspect than I am the possibility of this technology. Anything that could lead to better security with less hassle is something I feel we should get behind. Even if this is just a precursor to a biometric scanner on Apple products in the future, this is something we should stop, and take note of right now.
What do you think? Do you think biometric scanning has a future with Apple products? Sound off in the comment section of this post to have your voice heard.

SMARTRAC announced that production and shipment of its high security e-Passport inlays at its facility in Chanhassen, Minn. has surpassed the milestone of 1 million units in a single month.

In December 2009, production of RFID components from SMARTRAC’s Minnesota facility reached 500,000 inlays in one single month for the first time. Since then, the company has continuously expanded production capacity and workforce at the local subsidiary

http://www.secureidnews.com/

Benjamin Vigier has been involved in the development of near field communication technology since 2004 and most recently was product manager for mobile wallet, payment and NFC at mobile payments specialists mFoundry.

EDGING CLOSER TO NFC? Apple's new product manager for mobile commerce has worked with NFC since 2004
Apple has hired an expert in near field communication technology as its new product manager for mobile commerce.